EP2160148A1 - Brosse à dents électrique - Google Patents
Brosse à dents électriqueInfo
- Publication number
- EP2160148A1 EP2160148A1 EP08773384A EP08773384A EP2160148A1 EP 2160148 A1 EP2160148 A1 EP 2160148A1 EP 08773384 A EP08773384 A EP 08773384A EP 08773384 A EP08773384 A EP 08773384A EP 2160148 A1 EP2160148 A1 EP 2160148A1
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- Prior art keywords
- drive
- toothbrush
- drive motor
- handpiece
- bearing
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
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- A61C17/00—Devices for cleaning, polishing, rinsing or drying teeth, teeth cavities or prostheses; Saliva removers; Dental appliances for receiving spittle
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- A61C17/3472—Power-driven cleaning or polishing devices with brushes, cushions, cups, or the like reciprocating or oscillating driven by electric motor characterized by the movement of the brush body with combined movements of the brush body
Definitions
- the present invention relates to electric toothbrushes, on the one hand the toothbrush handle part of an electric toothbrush, with a handpiece housing, a protruding on a first housing end side of the handle housing, preferably rod-shaped, drive transformer to which a brush attachment is attachable, and a drive motor for Movement of the drive transformer, wherein the drive transformer is supported by a bearing device in the interior of the handpiece housing in the manner of a rocker such that the drive transformer is pivotable transversely to its longitudinal axis by the drive motor back and forth.
- the invention relates to the entire toothbrush comprising such a toothbrush handpiece and an attachment brush.
- a toothbrush whose bristle field is reciprocally drivable transversely to the toothbrush longitudinal direction.
- a relatively complicated gear mechanism is provided with a plurality of gear stages and a swash plate, which converts the rotary drive movement of an electric motor in the desired reciprocating cleaning movement of the attachment brush.
- a drive gear is known, which converts a rotary motion into a reciprocating tilting movement.
- a fundamental problem of such toothbrushes with a translational transverse movement of the bristle field is also the fact that the transverse movement occurs not only on the bristle field, but also in the region of the brush tube, which on the one hand lead to a user unpleasant sensation in the area of the incisors and lips and may also cause unwanted drive damping and problems with generating sufficient motor amplitudes.
- the present invention is based on the object to provide an improved toothbrush of the type mentioned and an improved toothbrush handpiece for this purpose, avoid the disadvantages of the prior art and further develop the latter in an advantageous manner.
- a drive with a particularly simple and cost-effective design is to be created, which causes an efficient cleaning movement in the region of the bristle field and thus a high cleaning performance despite low vibration amplitude in the area of the lips.
- the bearing device rotatably holds the drive transformer about a fulcrum located outside of the handle body.
- the named pivot point is in this case in particular displaced so far out of the handle housing, that it preferably comes to rest between the bristle field of the attachment brush and the front end of the handle in the area of the lips of a user.
- the bearing device for the drive transformer can be designed differently.
- the bearing device may comprise a multi-articulated suspension, preferably in the form of a four-bar linkage with two bearing legs, which are each pivotally attached at one end to the drive carrier and hinged at its other end to the handpiece housing or a handteilgepatusefesten part , such as a motor group carrier, is attached.
- the multi-articulated suspension is in this case designed with respect to their kinematics such that it defines said pivot outside the handle housing.
- the suspension can be constructed in the form of a simple four-bar link, whose bearing legs have substantially parallel axes of rotation.
- the bearing device for the drive transformer consist of two simple spring elements, such as leaf springs, which hold the drive transformer in the manner of a four-bar linkage and each attached with its one end to the drive transformer and fixed with its other end to the handset housing or handteilgephinfesten part ,
- leaf springs it is generally also possible to use other spiral spring elements, for example in the form of rod-shaped spiral springs, but leaf springs with their different stiffnesses in different directions are preferred and particularly suitable for the suspension of the drive transformer.
- the leaf springs Due to the flexible, elastic training the leaf springs need not be hinged, but they can be rigidly attached at their ends, whereby a particularly cost-effective training can be given by the leaf springs to the drive transformer, a holding this connecting piece, a drive motor and / or a housing part are formed, in particular when the leaf springs are injection molded from plastic. Due to the suspension of the drive transformer by means of leaf springs, regardless of the arrangement of the aforementioned pivot point for the drive transformer, a particularly simple design of the suspension for the drive transformer can be achieved with nevertheless favorable kinematics of the drive movement. In addition, regardless of a particular position of the fulcrum damping problems can be largely avoided.
- the dimensioning of the leaf springs or the bearing legs of the four-bar linkage and their arrangement and alignment can in principle be adapted to the design of the toothbrush handpiece. partly or the attachment brush be adapted, depending on the case constellation, for example, the length of the leaf springs or the bearing legs, the positioning of the articulation points and / or the angular orientation of the leaf springs or bearing legs can be changed in space.
- the bearing legs or the leaf springs are arranged inclined to each other at an acute angle, so that the longitudinal axes converge towards the center of movement of the drive or the attached thereto attachment brush.
- the bearing legs or the leaf springs may be arranged obliquely to each other such that imaginary extension lines define an intersection on the longitudinal axis of the Antriebsübertragers outside of the handpiece housing through the longitudinal axes of the bearing leg or the leaf springs, the intersection not necessarily on the drive body itself, but possibly also on the beyond virtually extended longitudinal axis of the drive transmission can lie.
- the angle of inclination of the bearing legs or the leaf springs can advantageously be in an angle range between 10 ° and 75 °, preferably between 15 ° and 45 ° and in particular approximately in the range of 20 ° to 40 °.
- the bearing legs of the multi-joint or the aforementioned leaf springs are arranged lying in a common plane, which forms the bearing plane of the bearing device and / or defines the plane of movement of the bearing leg or the bending spring elements, in which said bearing leg or spring elements their Perform movement.
- the coupled with the drive transformer drive motor itself can be designed differently.
- the rotational movement of a rotating electric motor is converted via a coupling member or the like into a reciprocating motion and transmitted to the drive transformer.
- the drive motor as a linear motor, preferably magnetic oscillation motor, is formed, which directly generates a linear reciprocating motion, which is transmitted to the drive transformer.
- the drive movement of the drive motor is in this case advantageously in a drive plane, in particular, it may be formed uniaxial.
- the drive motor in the development of the invention is oriented in such a way that its drive plane or its linear drive axis is parallel to the predetermined called bearing plane extends, in which the bearing legs and the spring elements of the bearing device are arranged.
- the drive transformer thereby rocks in a plane parallel to the drive movement of the drive motor.
- a spatial drive movement of the drive transformer can be generated.
- the drive transformer can be moved on a substantially double-cone shaped drive track.
- the drive plane of the drive motor relative to the aforementioned storage level of the bearing device, in which the bearing legs of the multi-joint or the leaf springs of the bearing device are arranged are tilted at an acute angle, preferably with a tilt of less than 45 °.
- a so-called spatial rocking movement of the drive transformer is generated on a substantially double-cone shaped drive track with preferably elliptical cone cross-section.
- the aforementioned pivot point of the drive transformer forms the constriction of said double-conical drive track, the fulcrum itself does not have to be an actually solid point, but can even circulate on a trajectory, which is much smaller compared to the amplitude of movement of the bristle field.
- the drive transformer together with the attached attachment brush and possibly further oscillating mitbewegten parts such as drive magnets, coupling pieces, etc., a vibratory drive train in a particularly advantageous manner, the resonant frequency of the drive train is tuned to the vibration frequency of the engine or vice versa.
- the vibration system may be designed such that the bristle field of the attachment brush and the drive motor oscillate in phase opposition or in-phase, in the latter case along the drive train comprising the attachment brush and the drive transformer two vibration nodes are present.
- the suspension by the aforementioned Biegefederele- elements or leaf springs is chosen so that the defined by the spring elements pivot point is located in one of the nodes.
- the other node may advantageously lie in the region of the attachment brush in the region of the lips, in which case the aforementioned pivot point is not in the region of the lips, but closer to the toothbrush hand part.
- the spring elements can serve as resonance springs of the vibration system.
- a transverse load detection device can be assigned to the drive transformer and / or the drive motor. Due to the suspension of the drive transformer, a relative deflection of the drive motor or its drive element, which can be easily measured in a simple manner, in particular by means of a magnetic field sensor, is produced when pressure is applied to the bristle field.
- the transverse load detection can be used advantageously to control the drive motor.
- a control device connected to the transverse load detection device which in particular controls the oscillation amplitude and / or the oscillation frequency of the drive motor as a function of the detected contact pressure.
- the control device can control a display which indicates to the user the pressure exerted or alerts the user when it is being cleaned with too high a pressure.
- the control device can also implement a start control as a function of the detected lateral load, in particular to the effect that the drive motor is started automatically when a specific contact pressure is present and / or maintained for a specific time.
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic plan view of an electric toothbrush according to an advantageous embodiment of the invention, which shows the suspension of the drive transformer and the drive motor driving this schematically,
- FIG. 2 shows a schematic view of the suspension of the drive transformer and the drive motor in a viewing direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the toothbrush, wherein the drive motor is arranged with its drive plane parallel to the bearing plane of the suspension to produce a planar rocking movement of the brush attachment,
- Fig. 4 is a schematic plan view of a toothbrush similar to Fig. 1 according to another preferred embodiment of the invention, according to which the drive train forms a resonance oscillating body, wherein in the illustration the two are formed along the drive train forming vibration nodes.
- the toothbrush 1 depicted in FIG. 1 comprises an elongated, substantially rod-shaped toothbrush handpiece 2 and an attachment brush 3 which can be attached to the toothbrush handpiece 2 and which has a substantially rod-shaped brush tube 23 and a bristle field 24 fastened thereto comprising a plurality of bristle tufts.
- the brush attachment 3 is rigidly, but releasably secured to a rod-shaped drive transformer 7, which protrudes on a first end face 5 of the handle housing 4 of the toothbrush handle part 2.
- the handset housing 4 accommodates in its interior a drive motor 8, a power supply 25 feeding the drive motor 8, for example in the form of a power supply or an energy store such as batteries or accumulators, and a control device 21 for controlling the drive motor 8.
- the drive transformer 7 extends a little way into the handpiece housing 4, wherein in the illustrated embodiment the portion of the drive transducer 7 located inside the handpiece housing 4 has a greater length than that projecting beyond the first end face 5 of the handpiece housing 4 Section of the drive 7.
- a bearing device 9 is provided for the drive transformer 7, which supports the drive transformer 7 movably, so that the drive transformer 7 transverse movements transversely to its longitudinal axis and in particular Kipppp
- Rocking movements about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the figure 1 axis can perform so that the bristle field 24 of the attachment brush 3 attached thereto can oscillate back and forth transversely to the attachment brush longitudinal axis and transverse to the main bristle direction, which is perpendicular to the plane of Figure 1.
- the bristle field movement direction indicated by the reference numeral 26 in Figure 1 corresponds to wiping and wiping along the tooth flanks substantially parallel to the interdental spaces.
- the bearing device 9 consists in the drawn in Figure 1 embodiment of two oblique leaf springs 14, 15, with one end fixed to the drive transformer 7 are connected and at its opposite other end to a handteilge- housing fixed point, such as a not specifically drawn motor carrier group, are rigidly mounted.
- the leaf springs 14 and 15 form the bearing legs 12 and 13 of a four-bar linkage 11, by which the drive transformer 7 in the storage plane 18, which corresponds to the plane of Figure 1 and is spanned by the two leaf springs 14 and 15, back and forth.
- the bearing device 9 for the drive transformer 7 while a virtual fulcrum 10 which is despite the arrangement of the bearing device 9 in the interior of the handle housing 4 outside of the handle housing 4, between the first end face 5 of the handle housing 4 and the bristle field 24th
- the arrangement of the bearing device 9 is made such that said pivot point 10 is in a - roughly speaking - central portion of the brush tube 23, which comes to lie approximately in the area of the lips when brushing teeth.
- the drive transformer 7 and the attachment brush 3 attached thereto are in fact reciprocated by the drive motor 8 in the manner of a rocker oscillating about said pivot point 10 and forth.
- the drive motor 8 is designed for this purpose as a linear motor in the form of a magnetic oscillation motor having a linear reciprocating drive piece 27.
- Figure 1 shows schematically the formation of the drive motor 8 in the form of two magnets 28 and associated coils 29, the magnets 28 back and forth with appropriate excitation, which in turn linearly reciprocate the drive member 27 corresponding to the movement arrow 30.
- the linearly drivable drive piece 27 is coupled to the lying in the handset housing 4 end of Antriebsübertragers 7, so that this is reciprocated accordingly, whereby a corresponding pivoting movement about the pivot point 10 is formed.
- the drive plane 17, in which the direction of movement of the drive piece 27 lies may advantageously be parallel to the aforementioned bearing plane 18, which is spanned by the leaf springs 14 and 15. This results in a two-dimensional rocking motion of the drive transmission 7 in said bearing plane 18.
- the drive motor 8 can also be tilted with its drive plane 17 with respect to the aforementioned bearing plane 18, as FIG. 3 shows. Accordingly, the direction of movement 30 of the drive piece 27 extends inclined at an acute angle to the predetermined called storage level 18 of the storage device 9, wherein the tilt angle between the drive plane 17 and bearing plane 18 may advantageously be less than 45 °, preferably less than 25 °.
- the tilt angle between the drive plane 17 and bearing plane 18 may advantageously be less than 45 °, preferably less than 25 °.
- the position of the virtual pivot 10 is advantageously chosen so that the vibration in the toothbrush handle 2 is minimal.
- the pivot point 10 is advantageously placed in the center of gravity of the vibration system formed by the moving parts of the toothbrush.
- the masses of the drive train comprising the attachment brush 3, the drive transformer 7, the attached drive piece 27 and the magnets 28 are distributed such that the center of mass of the oscillating drive train in the brush tube 23 of the attachment brush 3 and in particular in the region of the pivot point 10 is located.
- the drive train comprising the attachment brush 3, the drive transformer 7, the drive piece 27 of the drive motor 8 and the reciprocating magnets 28 has a resonant frequency which is tuned to the frequency , with which the motor is electrically controlled.
- the powertrain has several resonance frequencies. With appropriate control of the motor can therefore be achieved that the attachment brush 3 and the magnet 28 of the drive motor 8 swing in phase, with two nodes forming along the drive train, as Figure 4 illustrates.
- the suspension is selected by the leaf springs 14 and 15 so that the defined by the four-joint formation of the bearing device 10 virtual pivot point 10 is located in one of the nodes 32, while the other nodes 33 in the area of the attachment brush 3, the teeth brushing approximately lies in the area of the lips.
- the control of the drive motor 8 by the control device 21 can be designed differently.
- the control of the drive motor 8 can be carried out at a constant frequency, which can be achieved by a very low circuit complexity.
- the drive pulses can be widened in order to keep the vibration amplitude constant.
- the motor amplitude can be measured by means of the voltage induced by the motor or a motor amplitude sensor and be controlled constantly as a function of this measurement signal.
- the control device 21 is connected to a transverse load detection device 19, which detects a load acting transversely on the drive transformer 7 and consequently the pressure forces of the toothbrush during cleaning.
- a transverse load detection device 19 which detects a load acting transversely on the drive transformer 7 and consequently the pressure forces of the toothbrush during cleaning.
- the signal of the magnetic field sensor 20, which indicates the pressure of the toothbrush during brushing quantitatively can be used by the control device 20 in various ways.
- an unspecified user display can be controlled to give the user a signal at too high contact pressure.
- the control device 21 can also reduce the motor amplitude at too high contact pressure.
- the control device 21 realize a start-up automatic, which sets the drive motor 8 only in motion when a certain contact pressure is applied for a certain time.
- the inclination of the leaf springs 14 and 15 can be adapted to the design of the toothbrush handpiece 2 and attachment brush 3, in particular to their dimensions and mass distribution.
- the angle 16 between the leaf springs 14 and 15 between 20 ° and 40 °, whereby in the arrangement of the leaf springs 14 and 15 in the front third of the handle housing 4, the desired position of the pivot point 10 outside of the handle housing 4 in the area of the brush tube 23 of the attachment brush 3 is achieved.
- the proposed by the present invention suspension of Antriebsübertragers 7 and the formation of this associated drive motor 8 in the form of a simple linear drive considerable advantages are achieved. Only slight vibrations occur in the handpiece, whereby a large cleaning amplitude is achieved in the region of the bristle field, while only a small oscillation amplitude is present in the region of the lips. lies.
- the frequency is basically independent of the operating voltage controllable and independent of the load, aging, temperature or other influences. It can be achieved without special control measures, a relatively stable amplitude, in addition, the amplitude and frequency of the oscillatory movement of the brush attachment can be adjusted very easily and independently. As a result, various modes of operation, such as gentle operation or massage operation, possible.
- the simple engine design is characterized by its low production costs and at the same time by a compact design.
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DE102007029972A DE102007029972A1 (de) | 2007-06-28 | 2007-06-28 | Elektrische Zahnbürste |
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